redirect site.com to www.site.com

johnnie · 2008-08-26 08:00:25

Hello,

My txp-site has fallen prey to a canonical URL-issue (the site.com vs www.site.com) with google. To fix this, I want to add the following lines to .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^vakantie-zuidafrika\.nl$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.vakantie-zuidafrika.nl/$1 [R=301,L]

However, this results in the following URL string: http://www.vakantie-zuidafrika.nl/index.php/

Which is obviously wrong.

How do I fix this?

Last edited by johnnie (2008-08-26 08:01:05)

johnnie · 2008-08-26 08:13:15

Never mind! Problem solved. For those interested, the htaccess now looks like this:

#DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
#Options +FollowSymLinks
#Options -Indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On
	#RewriteBase /relative/web/path/
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^vakantie-zuidafrika\.nl$ [NC]
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.vakantie-zuidafrika.nl/$1 [R=301,L]
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
	RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]
	RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} !^$
	RewriteRule .* - [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>
#php_value register_globals 0

Last edited by johnnie (2008-08-26 08:13:30)

JanDW · 2008-08-27 22:43:33

Could anybody tell me what I’m doing wrong?

#DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
#Options +FollowSymLinks
#Options -Indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        #RewriteBase /relative/web/path/
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^judithinglese\.com$ [NC]
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.judithinglese.com/$1 [R=301,L]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
        RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]
        RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
        RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} !^$
        RewriteRule .* - [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>
#php_value register_globals 0

Last edited by JanDW (2008-08-27 22:44:57)

joebaich · 2008-08-27 23:21:42

Try replacing the line

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^judithinglese\.com$ [NC]

with

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^judithinglese.com$ [NC]

JanDW · 2008-08-28 01:08:05

Thanks for your reply, Joe. However, it’s not resolved yet.

I’ve also tried:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.judithinglese.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.judithinglese.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Last edited by JanDW (2008-08-28 01:20:20)

Gocom · 2008-08-28 02:21:32

Try before Textpattern’s rules:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^judithinglese.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.judithinglese.com/$1 [R=301,L]

JanDW · 2008-08-28 04:45:00

Thanks, Gocom. Alas that doesn’t change anything either.
In a moment of frustration, after I threw my pet hampster into the wall, I removed the .htaccess file, and found that textpattern was still operating in clean URL mode. Is that even possible? Or does textpattern not depend on .htaccess for that? the .htaccess file is in the root dir of my site.

I just realize I don’t have a hampster, hmmm, maybe that was last month’s tiramisu…

Last edited by JanDW (2008-08-28 05:08:02)

joebaich · 2008-08-28 05:05:17

Odd to think that you may have had a hampster as a pet, most folks put a picnic in their’s :-).

I wonder if you are not succeeding in overwriting/deleting the existing .htaccess file on the host because of a permissions problem or something similar. That would account for the stubborn behaviour and the apparently persistent clean URLs.

If that isn’t the case, I think that the best way forward for you is to swallow some pride, but not the elderly tiramisu, and seek the assistance of your Host. The amendment I suggested above, set into the code you showed, works fine for me on a bunch of TXP sites.

JanDW · 2008-08-28 17:32:37

Ok, this is embarrasing. I put the file in the wrong directory. Apparently my head is filled with month old tiramisu as well.
Great first post! Hope I made a good impression! I realized it just a minute into my chat with the help desk.
nice! Well, I’m off to the pet store to buy myself a bucket of ham(p)sters, hopefully that will help me to relax a bit. O, ham(p)ster, you elusive animal! Why can you be spelled two different ways?

Thanks again for your time, Joe & Gocom.

Last edited by JanDW (2008-08-28 17:58:23)

joebaich · 2008-08-28 18:25:36

Don’t worry about it Jan. When I do things like that, my wife howls with laughter and then ridicules me for days afterwards. It’s a good looking site and well worth the pain.

JanDW · 2008-08-28 19:31:55

Thanks, Joe. Sounds like a good sort of wife :-)

Last edited by JanDW (2008-08-28 19:36:28)

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